Do you remember these?Any household that didnt have Stella Pomade back then was not happening...hehhehehehhe.
My Dad used to insist i rub all over,especially my face with Stella Pomade ,I used to hate the shiny look and the smell eeen...lol
Do they still manufacture these?
The days of these things were the days that Nigeria was Nigeria oh,not now!
Lol.... I can't remember any. Except dat siwe game.
ReplyDeleteYea I remember all with fond memories. Growing up was so luvly and interesting for me. I wish I can go back then. Kai when I dont have to jusy worry about anything. My childhood rocks mehn
DeleteStella pomade!!!! Choi when you use that pomade, you will shine better tha the morning star. Anybody that does not remember all those item belong to Indomine generation.
DeleteI remember almost everything.
DeleteThat tv set was in my maternal grandfather's house.
We were like the cool kids.
People would peep through the window to watch TV while we lounge on the couch eating fried OKIN biscuits.
Those old days.
For real?! You must be very young oo.
DeleteUhh I guess am too young for dis
DeleteChai;na stella pomade i rub tire oooo,cos my mum just likes it A lot..
DeleteThe black and white Tv eeehh;person wey get am then ma bigman oooo
That whistle,chai!!! I remember when i use to blow mine with water poured inside through the hole;then when i blow it;the water would just be splashing all over my face and i would be laughing like i won lottery...choi!! childhood eehhh..
That peugeot 504,thats the strongest car for taxi now ooo..
The lady playing "swell"(thats what we call it at the east here) and the guy watching;mehn i love that game biko..then in primary school i would leave other male game to play this with my fenale classmates..even after school dismissed self!
The 50kobo;epic! Would still find much of them if i search wella here..cos thats what we use to play the game "AYO" whenever our ayo seed was missing
NNext time u see me...I old pass you. -____-
DeleteDatCrazyCalabarChic
I miss planta, that butter was so 9ce, i remember everything. Then there was a nice Omo advert then.
DeleteI miss Okin, gogo chei
Sprint chewing gum
That means you are still a baby at Chick Felix...
DeleteChoi!...
That television and stove is still in my mums house...
We don beg her tire to throw it away but she refused...
That woman can hoard things sha...
Indomie gemeration.
DeleteTaata like you
DeleteU must be a millenia kid
DeleteYou be Tata oo.
DeleteI really miss planta and that salty blue band butter. The ones they produce now is just creamy without taste.
This old blue band ehee even if the bread you are eating it with is an old baked bread it will taste yummy.
Oh! Lord bring back my old Nigeria.....
Tandi garanda everybody say;
DeleteTandi goranda everybody say;
Nasco biscuit- I hated it.
SDK stella pomade still dey oh. They use it to pay bride price in my mom's place.
Taaaa Chick Felix can lie for africa.Even my younger sister who is 22yrs still remember most of these things and aunty gwegz like u is here claiming small pikin.Abeg go siddon for potopoto with ur lies.
DeleteI remember all. Hahaha!
DeleteWho remembers Cocosheen? Hehehe.
I so loved Planta but hated Blue band.
I was crazy about fido dido.
Nta 7, boring station ever. Nta 2, channel 5, ur reach out station. Nta channel 10 still dey? I remember clapper board tv station. They can show films ehn.
What again... omg, those were the days. Okin biscuits? Yum yum deliciouso.
Omg!
DeleteI emember everyyyyy!
That bird whistle, I blew till thy kingdom come. Sometimes we put water inside sef and it produces a funny noise
The teevee, the 504! Oh my days!
Stella pomade and Jet? Ohhh! My fav was stella pomade. The smell I still remember.
Kikikikiki
The good ol' days mehnnn...when mamas were girls.
Oh mehnnn!
Chic felix, I sure say na play u dey play...even a 20 yr old pesin go rember more than 4
DeleteOMG. I would so anything to have planta ooo bit was my favorite. And the square Okin biscuit. Chai. Nostalgia.
DeleteI remember the NTA...Ahahah
Can any body direct me to name of the maker of this? An email or phone number?
DeleteMake I hear say I no remember those! Back then at Zaria I was really small!! Fun days growing up tho.
ReplyDeleteMz sparkle, you lived in Zaria?.... Did you by any chance attend Therbow School or Zaria Chiildren's school. Wow! I'm feeling nostalgic...
DeleteEverything apart from d stove
DeleteChai that stove remains me of those days! Chai chai. Smh
DeleteHahahahaha I remember everything, except for plantas. All epic.
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Beautiful days
Delete*reminds
DeleteI had like 3 of that birdie stuff, we used to put water inside so it makes one kind of bubbly sound when u blow it, I played suwe like mad in primary school, I remember NTA channel 5 too well.i didnt spend one naira note sha but my parents kept one for me to see.I done old with style sha.hehehehe!!
DeleteChai wen money was money! Wen u can buy ice cream and puff puff with #1! Remember okin biscuit, the modern version is now coaster bt dem can't fit copy it! Lol. Also d birf whistle lol, den I wud take it close to my younger ones ear and blow it loud and dey end up crying lol... stella has really taken me bk to d memory lane lol
ReplyDeleteAsin ehhee...
DeleteThat Ice cream they put in a white small waterproof that has many colours...
That colored ice cream was bae## that year, I remember all except stella pomade o!!! Planta, okin, that blue band advert my elder bro will lay down on the floor crying for bread once that advert comes up! Chaiiii
DeleteDoes this mean I'm old??
DeleteAda Onyema, is it d one we call lolly pop, lolly for short? Lol
DeleteLol. We call Stella pomade'mgba nwafo' in my place. The Planta butter has one funny advert then:'ifu papa I kpoo ya mama,planta'As in after eating planta if you see mama you go call am papa.
ReplyDeleteI use d jet cream o. Dat na fine cream
ReplyDeleteYou didn't use nku cream. Used to use the empty nku cream bottle to catch fish in our local stream. What of Dan Fulani pomade
DeleteNku cream. Hahahahaha.
DeleteI use Nku die. My mum always bought it for me. My complexion was bae then. I was glowing
DeleteOld school.
ReplyDeleteI miss that okin biscuit much!
DeleteI can c boobs on d Stella pomade...and wit d way parents are acting now one wud think porn neva existed back den....mtchew. At least dey r not saggn lyk myn
ReplyDeleteSigning out in 3.....2.....1~~~~
Lmaooooooooo, but seriously. What was the rationale behind the breasts?
DeleteSo na d breast bother you. LMAOOOOO. You're crayayyyy. Port, sagging, ur mind wanders in a wonderful way.
DeleteSee Stella pomade,. Plants butter.. Standing television ( Old skool).
ReplyDeletePeugeot 504,.blue band tin chaiii.
Old skool things
See Stella pomade,. Plants butter.. Standing television ( Old skool).
ReplyDeletePeugeot 504,.blue band tin chaiii.
Old skool things
Yea I agree with u totally. Dt Stella n Jet cream. I love dia smells or fragrance though.
ReplyDeleteYes oooo Stella all those things there my papa dey buy am for us. That Planta na former Lever Brothers dey do am but now it is Unilever.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy those things. That stella pomade na my pomade be that ooo. once you rubb it you go just dey shine dey go.
Wish this day will just turn back time. Old school rocks.
Hehehhehehe...Stella wia did u get dse pix?
ReplyDeleteAwwww! Feel like playing suwe and tente right now.
ReplyDeleteMemories...
ReplyDeleteI feel nostalgic about almost any memory nowadays, always seem to be close to tears all the time and I'm usually not a crying person.
Is this old age or emotional breakdown or what...?
Same to me. Are you away from your family? I miss mine.
DeleteIt just brings d memory of my mum back. I totally get d feeling. Sigh
DeleteHahahaahahahahah
ReplyDeleteStella thanks for the old memory lane jor....
Stella as a matter of fact, that Stella pomade is still in the market and WELL USED.
That was part of the things my hubby was asked to buy for women when he came to marry me. 20 for that matter lwkmd.
Easterns can never leave this cream alone.
My dear it was in my own list too hehehe
DeleteNne, we still use it in my place too. It was part of the items in the "list umunwanyi". but ours is btw four and eight pieces
DeleteHahahaahahahahah
ReplyDeleteStella thanks for the old memory lane jor....
Stella as a matter of fact, that Stella pomade is still in the market and WELL USED.
That was part of the things my hubby was asked to buy for women when he came to marry me. 20 for that matter lwkmd.
Easterns can never leave this cream alone.
Isssalliee adonbilivit, lol, so your hubby actually bought the cream? Good old tradition....
DeleteI remember all. Good old days. There was Nku cream, Royal baby powder also. D days of using Slate & Chalk.
DeleteI remember some of them
ReplyDeleteHum 504 my dad's car then
I can stil remember the good old days.
ReplyDeleteBut
Now.Things has fallen apart.
*have
DeleteAwwwwwww Stella ... You bringing back old memories!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Good old days of 80's
ReplyDeleteOh how I miss goody goody
ReplyDeletea.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
ReplyDelete.
Onpoint pics..... I remembered many though..... #NowPlaying>> demonstrate: uzi....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
I loved my Planta and Okin biscuit back in the days. Chai!
ReplyDeleteChoi, okin biscuit o. I had dreams.
ReplyDeleteI experienced all. Hmmm
ReplyDeleteThank God for d gift of life.
Let me add some. Unfortunately, no pics to show.
1. Pamalat yogurt by Sona brewries
2. Smarties chocolate
3. Bata shoes
4. Amusement Park, Apapa
5. Elephant Blue detergent
6. Tree-Top drink
7. Go-go sweets
8. Bazooka chew gum
E.t.c.
God bless Nigeria. #Sweetmemories.
Goody goody sweet
DeleteTrebor sweets
chopper bicycles
curtina shoes
those where the days!!!!
Na waooooo u Na real old school, Bazooka with d pictures
DeleteChoco, choco milo.
DeleteYou must be a 1980 baby
DeleteYou are so on point. I even asked my mum about 3 top drink. She said I must be dreaming if I think I can ever find them and to call her if I do .
DeleteDr Pepper drink (or is it Mr Pepper), ginger ale, short cake biscuit. M&K.
DeleteOh! Bazooka gum!!!
DeleteWe use to live in a school environment when I was young, I use to buy all these biscuits and sell to HSC students in d hostel then. Toffee sweet, nicco sweet, tomtom etc. Chocobite, sweet alagbon, balewa. Childhood is sweet cus I really enjoyed mine. Seeing these bring back sweet old memories.
DeleteAmusement park apapa!! Yaasss
DeleteYea..
DeleteDr pepper and crush were the Pepsi and mirinda of those days.
Bazooka chewing gum. Hahhahhhahaa
Memories!!!
Green Sands shandy nko? (who knew it contained alcohol) l loved Goody-Goody and Big Dip ice-cream like kilode! Kai, those days were gooooood. Days of Mirror in the Sun and Andrew-checking-out. Veno Marioghae, Mandy Brown-Ojugbana and Dizzy K Falola *omojeje*
DeleteNostalgic already. Good old days
DeleteWow
ReplyDeleteSee 10 kobo
Old school things
i love okin biscuit
ReplyDeleteI'm not Dat old abeg
ReplyDeleteLol..
DeleteSame here, I can remember just few things here..
Oh shut up! The more reason you shuld mind d way to talk. Or maybe you are dat old but haven't achieved anything so you decided to live in denial.
DeleteIf all dis things r strange to u,den u r a smallie...put uncle infront of my name wen u wanto address me next time
DeleteNa fight? Is anyone forcing you to be old? Mgbeobuna ina ako ka onye ara.
DeleteMake una sofri dey lie for dis blog.I'm 23yrs and still remember most of these things..Yes i have vivid memory.Eka u never reach 25? Abeg make we hear word.Small pikin indeed..Come and suck breast.
DeleteLmao @bitchplis buahahaha
DeleteHehehehe
ReplyDeleteWhistling outta post
I remember some.
ReplyDeleteU remember all ... Old tin like you!
DeleteI did that swell sotey.....
ReplyDeleteThat whistle...yes
We use 2 watch blank television (audio tv) with just the voices.
Hahahahahahhhahah
Hahahaha...
DeleteYou remembered the name of the game...
Swell!!..
Lmao...
What of that one. Two groups,then one girl in front,you fall backwards,they catch u,throw u up,u dance,fall back.
DeleteWe use to sing
Dede wa
Dede wa
Dede wa
Etc.
That swell,I do am tire.
Koso nko?.
My naughty older bro nearly use koso kill back of my hand.
I was quite sporty as a child. Table tennis,courtesy of my late dad n goalkeeper for my bro's team. U no go even know say I be gal. I go wear trouser dey jump like Enyeama. I was quite good.
I didn't meet planta.. But everything else 90's baby
ReplyDeleteAfter planta came summer county
DeleteWow, m old o! I know and remember every item, I even won a Fiddo Diddo t-shirt once. Thanks Stella
ReplyDeleteThe Good old days
ReplyDeleteWe never got to use any of the above, they were too much luxuries and meant for 'big man childrean' like my mom always told us.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember stella pomade, but i remember seeing venus pomade kikikiki. I played suwe taya. I remember you have to put water in whistle for the bird to sing. NTA 2 channel 5 ela oju ko kikikiki, remember the colored chalk to make those colored drink, baba dudu, sisi pelebe, congealed honey. Sprint chewing gum 2 for 50kobo. It have teyed. I be madam play play representing surulere.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember stella pomade, but i remember seeing venus pomade kikikiki. I played suwe taya. I remember you have to put water in whistle for the bird to sing. NTA 2 channel 5 ela oju ko kikikiki, remember the colored chalk to make those colored drink, baba dudu, sisi pelebe, congealed honey. Sprint chewing gum 2 for 50kobo. It have teyed. I be madam play play representing surulere.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember stella pomade, but i remember seeing venus pomade kikikiki. I played suwe taya. I remember you have to put water in whistle for the bird to sing. NTA 2 channel 5 ela oju ko kikikiki, remember the colored chalk to make those colored drink, baba dudu, sisi pelebe, congealed honey. Sprint chewing gum 2 for 50kobo. It have teyed. I be madam play play representing surulere.
ReplyDeleteJet cream was so nice. Planta my planta
ReplyDeleteWhere is big dip, I love
Awwww
ReplyDeleteFeeling nostalgic.
#WhiteDiamondOut
On my goodness!!! What a memories. I remember almost all of them. That Okin biscuit makes me laugh out loud, My mummy's shop suffered in the hand of my sister, Okin Biscuit and Fanta.
ReplyDeleteLol,, I remember that grundig TV wella, that TV usually in the cupboard and with its k.leg......buhahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteAhhaa, I remember ALL of them! What of midnight blue powder that smelt so nice and had a lovely white princess lady on the front of the container? Every evening after my mum bathes us, she rubs it around our neck and shoulders.
ReplyDeleteOld skool
ReplyDeleteI don old oo I remember all.....
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking me the memory lane. My eldest sister name is Stella. She attended Stella Marris college. Our household cream was Stella Pomade. So when my sister dress up in the morning for school, we use to scornfully sing at her, that She attend Stella, She wear Stella uniform, She rob Stella cream and she even bear Stella. It was all fun.
ReplyDeleteWow.....
ReplyDeleteI remembered all o.. in the 80's and early 90's
#nostalgic ,,,
Kai...okin biscuit o, my favourite okin biscuit was d rectangular shape ..whistle bird with water in it,,hnmm suwe game!
ReplyDeleteGush!
Short cake
DeletePop used to buy the vaseline at Kingsway Supermarket.
ReplyDeleteRwandan Pastor Forcefully Converts 480 of His Followers to Islam
Square aka suwe, good old days indeed
ReplyDeleteOh Lord. That whistle. And yes, I played 'suwe' o. Always
ReplyDeleteExcept planta, I know d others
ReplyDeleteI so remember d planta advert! #singing children is breakfast time, breakfast time is planta time, planta. Lol, gud old days
ReplyDeletewen was blue band ever packaged like that? the only ones i can remember are okin biscuit and suwe
ReplyDeleteWow those pictures bring so many beautiful memories.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stella for reminding me of my growing up days. Sweet old yesterday.
Chaiii. I remember all wella. Miss those good old days. I hated the smell of that Stella pomade too. But no by force to rub am oooo with my mama
ReplyDeleteOld school tinz. Jet cream fine die, love the okin shortcake than the round one.
ReplyDeleteThe 7up fido dido came much later than the rest,good old days
ReplyDeleteI remembered every... Stella pomade is very much around,saw it at Bariga market .
ReplyDeleteRayJay
Stella pomade and Jet cream are made by PZ Industries and are still in the market. Only that the southerners (the 3regions) prefer bleaching cream so they are sold up north and exported to Neighbouring countries
ReplyDeleteMy mum still has that stove in her kitchen o. Everlasting stove lol
ReplyDeleteBut that stove can over float tire o!
DeleteExpecially those ones with bottle in Btw for the kero!
Echetam the day we ate jollof rice aja aja because the stove started over floating(i guess that's the right word) and we all had to quench the fire with every every o both sand o, water plus even stone...lol
Chaii! Uwa même ntughari! Thank you Jesus for my today..
Hahahaha.
DeleteChai. Abakaliki rice 🍚 ,rubbish rice filled with stone. Everyone ate that rice
We always broke the Stella pomade bottle before we used it half way. Memories.
ReplyDeleteStella pomade was on the list my husband was given when I was getting married. I was shocked they got it from owerri market.
ReplyDeleteLol.....planta puts more life into you and aaahh it taste so good.....good ole days...
ReplyDeleteChai;na stella pomade i rub tire oooo,cos my mum just likes it A lot..
ReplyDeleteThe black and white Tv eeehh;person wey get am then ma bigman oooo
That whistle,chai!!! I remember when i use to blow mine with water poured inside through the hole;then when i blow it;the water would just be splashing all over my face and i would be laughing like i won lottery...choi!! childhood eehhh..
That peugeot 504,thats the strongest car for taxi now ooo..
The lady playing "swell"(thats what we call it at the east here) and the guy watching;mehn i love that game biko..then in primary school i would leave other male game to play this with my fenale classmates..even after school dismissed self!
The 50kobo;epic! Would still find much of them if i search wella here..cos thats what we use to play the game "AYO" whenever our ayo seed was missing
@MARTINS ABOY
I remember all.. that stove was my mum stove then.
ReplyDeletePlus my mum loves planta so much. ...
ReplyDeleteChai nnem oma I miss u daily.
Good old days........... Stella just refreshed my memories...... When Nigeria was Nigeria
ReplyDeleteChoi, I no sabi them.
ReplyDeleteAunties and uncles, una doh
Stella Pomade.lol. my mama will buy two of it and take kitchen spoon, tell us to bring our co trainers and share for us all. Good ol' days .That one that resembles nku cream,na only my mama dey use am..see that stove and plenty others. Chai.
ReplyDeleteMy father still uses d 'jet' cream oh! That 1 still dey market oh! Choi! I don old oh! I remember almost all of them sha.. Thank God for life!
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of post I expect to read Nwunye generals stories. Lol
ReplyDeleteNne hope your good, miss your comments here lately...
Genny la babe love, where are thou for crying out loud!! Tried sending you a mail recently but it bounced back...
Stella you need to see the way I read this post smiling sheepishly..
I remember all!! Except for few which are peculiar to people that grew up in the west..
Mgbe Uwa di nma!!
*smilling out*
I remember all.
ReplyDeleteWe use to cover our TV with lucozade paper to make it coloured tv
Hahaha
Love the Okin biscuits...Yum!
ReplyDeleteAsin ehn, I rmmb dat planta advert very well. Jet cream still dey market oooo. I'm old mehn
ReplyDeleteAnd the teevee jingle back then goes:
DeleteChildren! It's breakfast time!
Breakfast time is planta time...planta!
La la la la la la la......planta! ( can't remeber the words anymore) lol
Good ol days really!
I remember everything and also.remember how my grandpa.used to shoult " e gbe ki ni yen si channel 7 ! ( change the station to.channel. 7 !.) on Sundays when we are.watching Fantasy Island on NTA 2. My sisters and I. will get.angry.and leave the living room for him .
ReplyDeleteThe Horlicks advert nko? abi na Ovaltine. My name na Mary. Chei, I remember how they used to lock the Ovaltine and Horlicks. We still found a way to thief and lick sha. Good old days. I do miss the goody goody though.
ReplyDeleteI rember all; I stil have the one naria note and 10kobo coin. Planining on showing them to my kids. O boy person don old tooo ooo.
ReplyDeleteWow!i remember all.my fav jingle back then was planta. grandma will force us to rub stella pomade mixed with palm kernel oil anytime we came visiting. The smell of the mix na die ! Lol
ReplyDeleteWaao! Stella u really tried fort this journey bak memory lane,mmm Planta what happened to it,stella pormade I hated so much that I wuld always find a way to push it off the table,and trust my mum even after I must have been beaten,we will stil end up using the spilt pomade even with some little pieces of glass int it,
ReplyDeleteDan Fulani pomode and royal baby powder. Sch den was with slates and chalk.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone used that soap they called "ncha Lagos and ncha green" even that sweet they call chocomilo and papament,apart from swell there's another we used to play mostly in the east we call it "ugah" and there's a very famous play then everyone was entitled to we call it" ororo" it goes with a song ,as I sing now (ororo Oro, onye mjidere, jide,okpo na ishi oko)this is the best I can remember on the song .there are some interesting films NTA use to show then on Saturdays, the names are wiliwili, checkmate, jaguar,seven lucky stars, home alone,the rich also cry, Maria de alindelis,hard target,shawolin temple, the killer, romio must die,tells by moonlight, and many more,
ReplyDeleteThose days there's what we call"egwu onwa,it goes with lots to dancing, story tells and at times toasting of girls, during the egwu onwa we stay out till 11pm at night because it's always on weekends we come out for it,
There are so many stories our fathers told us then that remains one of the must significant guidance on us till now.stories like
Ojadili the great warrior, from this story you will understand how man gets that long line on our back, another story was obidike, ije odumodu jere na obodo finda, the story of amadi oha and there are so many stories our parents told us about the totoise we call it nnabe,
Mehn,Choi I remembered all these cos I played a lot then, those days we don't use to wear clothes we only wear Nika . and there are some games the boys play then some are
Players which we use the cock of minaral bottles to play.
Another is boiress ,a wooden motor we construct .
And riding of wheal and many more.and those days in school there's a name the use to call us then ,the name is "umu ota Akara"
We sang so many songs in school then, songs like
Old rogger is dead and gone to his grave heeeee haaaaa gone to his grave.
Another song is, infact if I sing this song the way we sang it then and you getting to know the actual meaning, hmm you will laugh tire , the song really means"standard living standard living" but for us we sing it this way"sanda Lilili sanda lili" hahahaha, chai, when men were boys, when we use to write love letter. Chai thank you Lord for your long life and health..